RJ04 - Describe the inquiry activity you will use for your informal assessment review. Explain what science practice(s) it will teach and how you plan to assess them.• Review RI GSES pertaining in Scientific Inquiry
Activity: "Ology" website- The Dzanga-Sanga game
Description: The game introduces three different ecosystems that exist in the Central African Republic. The students can choose whether they want to know about the forest, the bai (marsh), or the river ecosystem (we will do it as a class using the Elmo to project the website so eventually all habitats will be visited). For each ecosystem there are a set of clues to figure out what to click on. When an organism is correctly clicked on it draws a line from the original organism that it was associated with. This continues until the page looks like somewhat of a web and the screen prompts, "Congratulations! Scroll over the dots to see other connections."
To accompany the activity the students will have a handout that lists all the organisms in each ecosystem and they have to fill in the blank and explain how one is connected to another.
Assessment: As an informal assessment I will observe how many students felt confident about their answers when asked to share what organism should be clicked on. I will also observe how many students are actually looking at the handout and writing in connections as we go along. During the game I will pick students to come and click on the organism they think the clue is describing, and they can use the support of their classmates to choose the best answer. I will also students to explain why they choose certain answers. One of the most important things I will be looking for is if students can predict what would happen to the ecosystem if one organism were wiped out of the system.
This is an inquiry activity because the students will have to make predictions about the stability of the ecosystem based on what they have observed with the connected dots. In other words, they will be investigating which organisms rely on what as primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. and what would happen to the ecosystem of one organism was removed from the web (which organisms would be affected first by the change, would this cause a chain reaction?).
Beth, how will you frame this activity as inquiry, i.e. an investigation? Will you incorporate experiences with any scientific practices?- fogleman RI GSES Addressed:
·Observe ·Predict ·Question and hypothesize ·Use evidence to draw conclusions ·Use tools, & techniques ·Communicate understanding & ideas
Using data and observations about the biodiversity of an ecosystem make predictions or draw conclusions about how the diversity contributes to the stability of the ecosystem.
RJ04 - Describe the inquiry activity you will use for your informal assessment review. Explain what science practice(s) it will teach and how you plan to assess them. • Review RI GSES pertaining in Scientific Inquiry
Activity: "Ology" website- The Dzanga-Sanga game
Description: The game introduces three different ecosystems that exist in the Central African Republic. The students can choose whether they want to know about the forest, the bai (marsh), or the river ecosystem (we will do it as a class using the Elmo to project the website so eventually all habitats will be visited). For each ecosystem there are a set of clues to figure out what to click on. When an organism is correctly clicked on it draws a line from the original organism that it was associated with. This continues until the page looks like somewhat of a web and the screen prompts, "Congratulations! Scroll over the dots to see other connections."
To accompany the activity the students will have a handout that lists all the organisms in each ecosystem and they have to fill in the blank and explain how one is connected to another.
Assessment: As an informal assessment I will observe how many students felt confident about their answers when asked to share what organism should be clicked on. I will also observe how many students are actually looking at the handout and writing in connections as we go along. During the game I will pick students to come and click on the organism they think the clue is describing, and they can use the support of their classmates to choose the best answer. I will also students to explain why they choose certain answers. One of the most important things I will be looking for is if students can predict what would happen to the ecosystem if one organism were wiped out of the system.
This is an inquiry activity because the students will have to make predictions about the stability of the ecosystem based on what they have observed with the connected dots. In other words, they will be investigating which organisms rely on what as primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. and what would happen to the ecosystem of one organism was removed from the web (which organisms would be affected first by the change, would this cause a chain reaction?).
Beth, how will you frame this activity as inquiry, i.e. an investigation? Will you incorporate experiences with any scientific practices? -
RI GSES Addressed:
· Predict
· Question and hypothesize
· Use evidence to draw conclusions
· Use tools, & techniques
· Communicate understanding & ideas
Using data and observations about the biodiversity of an ecosystem make predictions or draw conclusions about how the diversity contributes to the stability of the ecosystem.